The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-28
SUMMER NOTES.
Pen Picture of the Harlem Girl-Notes

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Pen Picture of the Harlem Girl-Notes
About Dresses. Bounets and Laces.
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Is ohe Vi ure ihos0 Popo."' .e'1'
accessible to New Workers. The Harlem
is n slurpish stream, though the tide runs
s+.o,,, in sno4s IL 4 n rnnddv stream and
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po'o 0an' ~ "Aes, 81 '."N'- s''
where at low tide. 10 Is not clean strealn,
and in dog days, at certain stages of the
water not always a sweet smelling stream,
vet the Harlem has big cllentage, and
studv of Harlem femifiinitv on a bright
Sunday in August is as well worth while as
anv seyies of Long Branch or Asbury Park
sketches.
Women who speud hot Sunday on the
Harlem have this advantage over the rest of
WATERING nlaces womankind. that the usual
proportion of the sexes is exactly reversed :;
there are about five Young men to one young
woman. and the fortunate fair one feels in her
element accordingly. She is not a parlor
eirl nv any means She does not feel the
severe. critical ewes of her own sex upon
her, and the restraint of a society in which
the public opinion is fixed by women flung
aside. She blossoms out into Jolly sort of
hoyden, going in for all the fun that can be
reaped. She puts her gloves in her pocket
She loans her big red pSsraSOl TO 1ef DeSC
young man. She laughs till the echoes
ring. She catches crabs with her net and
more with her oar. The more crabs of
either sort she catches. the better she likes
il.
There are all sorts and conditions of Har-
lem GIRLS. There is the trim girl from the
measurably select brownstone trent on the
quiet side street or the neatly appointed up
town fiat She wears white flannel and a
4 n
under the awning in front of the smart boat
houses of the rowing clubs while practice
crews are coming and going in racing shells,
and big muscles swell for her edifcation I'M
der the broad striped jersies as the skies or
the Fights lie around on the float prepare
tory to taking another spin. She is not the
girl who gets most endowment out of Har-
lem Sunday, however She looks on it as a
spectacle instead of entering con apt0re in
to the thorough-going Bohemianism of the
place.
A more usual type is your white lawn girl,
with not too EXPENSIVE cotton lace or EN-
broidery covering neck and arms. She has
been shut IN for six DAVIS in shop or factory
and she is out for a holiday and a general
good time. She and the girl with her-they
always hunt in couptes-bring along in com
mon ownership two, perhaps three, young
men Sometimes the escorts are clerks and
their white skin burns painfully red and
thew tie hankerchiefs about their Threats be-
fore they have been half an hour in the sun.
Sometimes they are stalwart young fellows
enough. They always strip on their coats
ana paddie ABOUT ciunslly, III VIII
ing hnen III clumsy uoiy, Lol 9acepC
9he poaI cluo crews, Hooouy oh Hlle Ilal M I
KNOWS now 10 row 1ouI uu ~! Iidl rem gu
brings iunch lor the parry ~ pIpMh pa
per Dag. one never opJects 10 pouGieu soua
ana ho6 Always 10 a mug oi ia8eI Wneu ole
DoaC eoes DuHIpIiIs AGAINST que I IfB res
UauituU taac uiIS % apooo une Aial lelli up i
pehslng lulo relresnihenus 10 eVerynVoy
VINO ohlrsts. one liialiases 10 Vear Ine tplli
SUN over her arms pretty frequently III neI
WrestieS Win Oiie osilS, anu wnSh tiie Pihh
ilesh begins 10 SNOW through III ooesm give
ner any great amount Vi coiceIn. Inc hier
lem girl Is hot pruulsh. one IhlinAs man
looks JUST us wen witnouo sloes Vi sUockules.
She Is Always iona OF mowers, ana every
spray OIL cardinal MOVERS OF goiden roo tna'
SHOWS ~ Ieaa on uiie psiiihs goes NOME On une
eie'aOeo WIN Ier when tne o,1y 10 uoile'
She averages apout as preDty as the AspuTy
fark klnu, ana tlle tiatieih y gouSehu "
her, giving plenty OF an ana healthy exer-
clse WIN pleasure oha0 Is none tle less IN
nocent Tor being loud me harlem glrl Is
Whoiesonle spectacte' IKE her ole peIGei
iWIPerhaps IL Is pecause IieI eYe iilt
Il, h.'iN ~ ~ e ~ " '' P
OF neiig ashamed 10 snow wheh she Is
pleased
WHEN A WOMAN HAS TWO HUNDRED AMI
FIFTY
gowns with underwear-wrars bonnets.
Iaces and parasols to correspond what is she
going To do with tbem3 Obviously she re-
G,1ires some place for storage. and the result
of competition in dressing Is seen in the de
| mand this summer for eSpecial rooms. ar
ranged for the Keeping of such toilet valua.
hIes AFT fine watering nlace hotels. Such !
Gown room is NOT a mere Trunk storage
APARTMENT. II is fire proof, or meant to be
SO. and II contains a wealth of closet room
and dress rack room that would turn an or
binary housewives brain. Four sucb rooms
! nre-emntej Inv individuels have been in use
this month at SARATOGA. to say nothing OF
ulebeian bedrooms set aside Tor wardTobe
mysteries by one woman, or two or three
women in common, Mrs. William Law
ton, of New York, has had one gown room.
She Is credited with eighty outdoor gowns
100 evening gowns and some fifty morning
and piazza toilets. Chicago woman, Mrs
Eoore, has,another gown room, and Keeps
II about as full. The wife OF a Kansas City
broker, an heiress from the Pacific Coast
| and pretty demi blonde PhlladelphLan
carry an equal amount OF baggage and are
| hard at WORK at the task oil making one ap-
pearance IN each toilet OF their list oil from
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